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Matthew Arnold - The study of poetry

        "Poetry is the criticism of life,                            governed by the laws of poetic truth              and poetic beauty". Matthew Arnold was English poet and cultural critic of 19th century. His notable works are, # "Dover beach" # "The scholar-Gipsy" # "Thysis" # "Culture and Anarchy" He wrote on social and cultural issues, religion, and education. His famous eassy on 'The study of poetry' : In this work, his concerned with poetry's high destiny. In this eassy he talk about some important points like # Touchstone method # His views of chaucer as a poet # His views on the age of dryden and pope # His views on Robert Burns as a poet # The Future of poetry # poetry is criticism of life # poetry interprets life # Fallacies of real Estimate # Idealism # High seriousness # moral and philosophical The study of poetry, the first eassy in the 1888 volume was originally published as the gener

Youth Festival 2018 : Aishvaryam

we had Youth Festival in MKBU, Which was hosted by the Takshashila College. Time and again these kinds of academic functions must should be organized. Because it is the stage which helps in displaying the hidden talents. And most of the students take these opportunities as a career changing. In a way these all things influenced a lot in future. In this festival there are many events like, One act play Skit Mono-acting Poetry recitation On the spot painting Rangoli Photography Poster making Group traditional song Western group song Installation Bhajan so on. So the task given by Dilip Barad sir to observe and watch this events and do critical work. One act play : As we know that according to Aristotelian play must have an acts so that people can understand or they can organize them with sequence. But now a days we find so many plays which has only one act plays and though we consider ad a play and it is call "One act play". "sikka n

Film screening : Lagaan

15th august 2018 On the special occassion of Independence day we have watched the movie Lagaan(2001) directed by Ashutosh Gowariker. On the Independence Day we had a movie screening of LAGAN at our Department of English. The main purpose to watching this movie was to critically evaluate the main key points and with the refraction of  Pre-Independence in the movie. In the movie there are many critical points like, ● Post colonialism ● Indianness ● Patriarchy ● Religion ● Nationalism ● Cricket as Metaphor ● Subaltern ● Rural India ● Feminism ● Teamwork and Leadership ● Goodness of Britishers ● Comparison of Lakha and Elizabeth ● Language ● Dance style          It is a sports-drama film, directed by Ashutosh Gowariker, produced by Aamir Khan and Mansoor Khan, written by Gowariker and Abbas Tyrewala. The film is set in the Victorian period of India's Colonial British Raj. Here I am interpreting film as per my understanding. Plot of the movie : The plot goes as

Paradise lost thinking activity

        "What we are dealing with is a fable of the human conditions, indeed three hundred years of the reading of Paradise lost entitle us to make use of the word 'myth'." Paradise lost is wonderful epic poem by John Milton and the epic poem is written in Blank verse in 17th century. In the poem, there are three main characters in the book, satan, Eve and Adam. Along with Satan, Eve is most important character in the Paradise lost. As we all know that the poem concerns the biblical story of the fall of man. But Milton’s purpose is different. He wants to "Justify the Ways of god to man". The main difference between Milton’s epic and the holy Bible is that, Milton begins the narration in hell. He takes that, satan and his angels are thrown out from the heaven because of disobedience. There are different situations and the difference experience of Innocence, temptation, fall, alienation and exile. Q. 1 Write a critical not on character of Eve? In the p

Edmand spenser and Ben Jonson

Renaissance literature or period is most important in the history of English literature. Renaissance means rebirth. In this period there are many writers like Edmund spenser, Ben jonson, William Shakespeare, Francis bacon etc. Spenser known as a poet's poet. Shakespeare is most important figure in the age of Elizabethan. Shakespeare had benefit of Queen Elizabeth because she gave prize. # EDMUND SPENSER : Spenser was born in 1552 in London. He was educated at the Merchant Taylore's school and at Cambridge. He left Cambridge in 1576 and a few moments are unknown. He comes into London in 1579 as a member of the literary circle surrounding sir Philip Sidney and his uncle the Earl of Leicester. After sometime, In 1589 he visited London to publish the first three books of " The Faerie Queene". His minor poems : The first famous poem is "The Shepherds Calendar (1579). After that he wrot volume of miscellaneous poem including 1. The Ruins of Time 2. The Tears o

Aristotle's poetic

Q. 1 How far do you agree with Plato’s objection to freedom of expression and artistic liberty enjoyed by creative writers? Name the texts (novels, plays, poems, movies, TV soaps etc which can be rightfully objected and banned with reference to Plato’s objections)  First of all creative writing means when you see something like flowers and you create your imagination about that flowers at that time we can say that this is creative writing. One of the most popular type of creative writing is storytelling and as we know that there are many elements of creative writing like characters development , plot development, dialogue etc. The best creative writers are William Shakespeare, leo Tolstoy, Edgar Allen poe etc. Plato is also known as creative writer. Plato believed that " truth of philosophy was more important than the pleasure of poetry". And yes i am agree with Plato’s Objection to freedom of expression and artistic liberty enjoyed by crietive writers. As we know that acco

Raja Rao's Contribution in Indian Renaissance

To evaluate my Presentation click here , https://dilipbarad.blogspot. com/2015/10/rubric-for- evaluation-of-oral.html Name : Ruchita Kankrecha Roll no : 39 Paper no : Indian writing in English language Class : Sem 1 Topic : Raja Rammohan Roy’s contribution in Indian renaissance Enrolment no : 2069108420190024 College : Department of English Email Id : ruchikankrecha06@gmail.com Submitted to : Department of English M. K. B. University INTRODUCTION :                           “ success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to carry on that counts “ -         Winston Churchill   The 19 th century is very important period in history of Indian renaissance. It was a period during which English educated Indians were determined to reform Indian culture, society and religion and English educated Indians sought inspiration from Vedas and Upanishad. They were also influenced by Western thoughts like Hindu leaders Raja Rammohan roy, Rabi

Biographia Literaria Chapter 14

To evaluate my Presentation click here , https://dilipbarad.blogspot. com/2015/10/rubric-for- evaluation-of-oral.html Name : Ruchita Kankrecha A. Roll no : 39 Paper no : literary theory and criticism Class : Sem 1 Topic : Biographia Literaria chapter xIv(14) Enrollment no : 2069108420190024 College : Department of English Email Id : ruchikankrecha06@gmail.com Submitted to : Department of English INTRODUCTION Biographia Literaria chapter – XIV is a very famous work of literature. It was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He was poet of romantic era. He was an best English poet, philosopher and critic. He was a founder of the romantic era in England and close to his best friend William Wordsworth. His some notable works are            1. Rime of the Ancient Mariner         2. Frost at midnight         3. Kubla Khan His most prominent and interesting work of literature was “Biographia Literaria” and it was published – 1815 to 1817. It i